Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-07-18
FIRE RECORD,
FIREM EN- HURT.
Burning OF Big Warehouse in New York
Many Men Injured by an Explosion
Children Saved by Sisters in an Orphan
Asylum.
NEM YORK Inly lh

NEW YORK. July Is.
Ere was discovered about three o'clock this
morning in the new five story brick building
of the Metropolitan storage warehouse on
Thirty eighth street, between Broadway and
Sixth Avenue. Before the fremen arrived
the whole place was raging furnace. Three
alarms were sent out, and special engine
companies were summoned from the neigh.
boring districts The Hotel Normsndie is
quite near. and soon the sparks descending
on this building set it on fire, and the guests
were hurriedly summoned TO leave. The
fire was soon extinguished, however, and the
guests being resssured. went back to their
rooms.
Soon after the fremen got to work on the
storage warehouse building terrific explo-
sion occurred, and seven iremen, who were
at work on the first floor. were blown through
the windows to the street. All of them were
very severely burned about the hands and
feet, and an ambulance call was Immediately
sent out When the ambulance arrived most
OF the injured firemen were unconscious, and
by that time five of them had been conveyed
to the hospital. They were Captain Vitler of
engine 25, and four of his men ; the other two
were John Conroy and John Douglass of en-
CINE company No. l. They were taken to
the hospital in the ambulance. The fire was
discovered by the watchman, who was in the
building at the time, and at once sounded the
alarm. The damage, as far as could be esti-
mated, is half million, although it may be
much more.
Several policemen were cut by the fving
glass. The list of injured fremen is as fol-
lows: Foreman Peter Vedder. head face
and hands severely burned; Edward Curley,
head and face burned; John Conway, face
and hands burned; john Trainor, face and
hands burned; John Douglass, face and
hands burned; James Delaney, face and
arms burned and cut; Peter Breen, severely
burned. He was blown from ladder and
fell twenty feet; he sustained a conclusion
OF the spine.
The lattice work on the roof of the Casino
caught t-e, and as it was next TO the burning
warehouse, it seemed doomed for a time.
The firemen ran lines of hose up through the
building, extinguished the small blaze, and
then turned their hose on the burning build
ing from the roof of the Casino. BY 6 A. NJ.
the fire was under control. The value of the
contents of the building is estimated at not
less than S425.000 The building belonged
to the Goeet estate and was valued at $780,
900. The warehouse was five story build
ing, and when the walls collapsed immense
damage was done to the two story building
fronting on broadway, also owned by the
Goelet estate. The numbers were 1892,
1894, 1896, 1898 and 400. Several firms
will lose from $1,000 to $4,000 by the fire.
Until the safes are dug out of the ruins no
estimate can be made of the amount of losses
to depositors in the warehouse.
1t is stated that the hig building was full
from cellar to roof. The furniture stored in
the building was mostly the property of
wealthy families. Many valuable oil paint
ings were burned. 1t is thought that the in
dvidual losses will aggregate more than ST.
100000